Bombay HC grants bail to doctor accused of raping minor
The court passed the order while hearing a plea filed by a registered medical practitioner who used to work as a medical officer in a civil hospital when he was arrested for raping a minor in November 2021.;
Mumbai: A doctor who was arrested on the charge of raping a girl when she was a minor in 2018 was granted bail by the Bombay High Court recently. The incident is reported to have taken place in 2018 when the girl was 14 years old, and the complaint was filed in 2021.
The single judge bench of Justice Bharati H Dangre observed that the complaint was filed in 2021, whereas the incident took place in 2018, and he was granted bail on the ground that the attendance record of the doctor revealed that he was working on the days when the incident took place.
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The court passed the order while hearing a plea filed by a registered medical practitioner who used to work as a medical officer in a civil hospital when he was arrested for raping a minor in November 2021.
The complaint filed by the survivor states that she came in contact with the doctor during her mother's treatment, as he was responsible for her mother's treatment, who was suffering from HIV at the civil hospital. After developing feelings, the girl accompanied the doctor to his house in 2018 where he is reported to have raped her. The complainant alleged that he had established a physical relationship with her on two previous occasions as well, as per a media report in the Indian Express.
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